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English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings (1588-1679)

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All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

– Thomas Hobbes

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No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

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Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

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Unnecessary laws are not good laws, but traps for money.

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Words are the money of fools

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Words are the money of fools.

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Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

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The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

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There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

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Leisure is the mother of philosophy.

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Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope the same, without such opinion, despair.

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Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

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Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

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Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

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Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome.

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Sudden glory is the passion which makes those grimaces called laughter.

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The privilege of absurdity to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

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War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.

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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools.

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